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Florida Gators wins SEC All-Sports Trophy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A league-high six team titles led the University of Florida athletics program to its 25th overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports trophy in 2014-15. Florida wins the overall title for the ninth consecutive year in the 2014-15 GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports rankings.
The determination of the SEC All-Sports standings came Saturday when the final league championships for 2014-15 were awarded for regular-season baseball and for outdoor track & field.
Florida was second in both the men's and women's final standings. Texas A&M won its first women's SEC All-Sports title since joining the league for the 2012-13 season. LSU took the men's SEC All-Sports title - its first since 1996-97.
Did You Know?
* Florida's 224 all-time league team titles<http://www.gatorzone.com/overview/> are the most in the SEC. In the last 10 seasons, UF leads the league with 56 titles.
Florida's 2014-15 SEC titles:
The Gators led the SEC in 2014-15 with six league team titles:
* Softball
* Men's swimming & diving
* Women's tennis
* Men's indoor track & field
* Men's outdoor track & field
* Volleyball
One other Florida sport claimed a league crown in 2015 as the Gator lacrosse team won the BIG EAST title in their first season in the conference.
SEC Athletes of the Year:
Six Gators picked up SEC Athletes of the Year honors so far in 2014-15:
Brooke Austin
Tennis Player of the Year
Kytra Hunter<http://www.gatorzone.com/guides/gymnastics/pages/season_info/player_bios/hunter_kytra.php>
Gymnast of the Year
Kelsey Stewart
Softball Player of the Year
Lauren Haeger
Softball Pitcher of the Year
Marquis Dendy
Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
Alex Holston
Volleyball Player of the Year
Florida Athletics Director Jeremy Foley says:
"The SEC is such a challenging league, with so many teams across all the sports ranking among the nation's best. This overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports Trophy is the result of so much hard work and effort by all of our student-athletes and coaches."
Jeremy Foley
University of Florida Athletics Director
How is the GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports titles figured?
Points are awarded based on the number of competing teams in a sport (e.g. - 14 teams compete in SEC baseball, giving the winner 14 points, second gets 13, etc. Four teams compete in equestrian, awarding four points to the winner). A program's points total is divided by the total number of teams competing in the sports the school fields and that quotient ranks the teams in the final GateHouse Media standings. The sports of cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field are combined. A program's outdoor track finish makes up half, while the remaining two quarters are based on the cross country and indoor finishes.
GateHouse Media Southeastern Conference All-Sports formula
Total points for school's finish in each SEC sport it competes in
/
Total number of teams competing
in sports a school fields
=
Quotient ranked for
program finish
(e.g. - SEC baseball champion receives 14 points; equestrian 4 points)
(e.g. - Florida men's total of 92 participating teams derived by adding
14 (base) + 14 (MBB) + 14 (FB) + 14 (GLF) + 10 (S&D) + 13 (TEN) + 13 (T&F) = 92
About the SEC All-Sports Trophy:
This is the first year GateHouse Media, which owns The Gainesville Sun as well as dozens of other publications around the country, awards the overall, men's and women's SEC All-Sports trophies.
The past three were awarded by the Halifax Media Group. The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group gave the awards from the 1994-95 through 2010-11 seasons. Prior to that, the league tabulated the SEC All-Sports totals.
What's Next?
UF is hopeful of finishing among the nation's top 10 most successful overall athletic programs for the 32nd consecutive year when final national all-sports rankings<http://www.nacda.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-current-scoring.html> are released June 25 or 26. Florida is the only school to finish among the nation's top 10 overall most successful athletic programs each year since 1983.
Let's Look at the Charts:
2014-15 SEC All-Sports Overall All-Sports Standings
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
Florida
157.5
208
0.7572
2
Texas A&M
152.5
204
0.7475
3
LSU
139
208
0.6683
4
Georgia
129
212
0.6085
5
Alabama
123
208
0.5913
6
Kentucky
107
208
0.5144
7
Arkansas
101.5
198
0.5126
8
Vanderbilt
81
164
0.4939
9
Mississippi
86.5
178
0.4860
10
South Carolina
94
204
0.4608
11
Auburn
94.5
212
0.4458
12
Tennessee
86
200
0.4300
13
Missouri
78.5
195
0.4026
14
Mississippi State
69
178
0.3876
Men
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
LSU
65.5
92
0.7120
2
Florida
65
92
0.7065
3
Mississippi
55.5
82
0.6768
4
Georgia
61
92
0.6630
5
Texas A&M
60
92
0.6522
6
Arkansas
49.5
82
0.6037
7
Alabama
51
92
0.5543
8
Vanderbilt
44.5
82
0.5427
9
Auburn
41
92
0.4457
10
Kentucky
40.5
92
0.4402
11
Mississippi State
35
82
0.4268
12
Missouri
32
79
0.4051
13
South Carolina
36.5
92
0.3967
14
Tennessee
33
92
0.3587
Women
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
Texas A&M
92.5
112
0.8259
2
Florida
92.5
116
0.7974
3
LSU
73.5
116
0.6336
4
Alabama
72
116
0.6207
5
Kentucky
66.5
116
0.5733
6
Georgia
68
120
0.5667
7
South Carolina
57.5
112
0.5134
8
Tennessee
53
108
0.4907
9
Arkansas
52
116
0.4483
10
Auburn
53.5
120
0.4458
11
Vanderbilt
36.5
82
0.4451
12
Missouri
46.5
116
0.4009
13
Mississippi State
34
96
0.3542
14
Mississippi
31
96
0.3229

About Andrew Spivey

Andrew always knew he wanted to be involved with sports in some capacity. He began by coaching high school football for six years before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. While coaching, he was a part of two state semifinal teams in the state of Alabama. Given his past coaching experience, he figured covering recruiting would be a perfect fit. He began his career as an intern for Rivals.com, covering University of Florida football recruiting. After interning with Rivals for six months, he joined the Gator Country family as a recruiting analyst. Andrew enjoys spending his free time on the golf course and watching his beloved Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewSpiveyGC.

High-Five to Jeremy Foley. Apparently he won, himself, some sort of trophy. That’s truly wonderful. I may be a minority of one but when I think of Jeremy Foley I think of things like that last four years of ineptitude at Ben Hill Griffins Stadium. I think for Florida v. Georgia Southern, Gator linemen blocking each other in an open field, losses to Florida State, what might have been with Charles Strong as head coach in Gainesville, ESPN showing for perhaps the 100th time a Missouri DE blowing past our OT and dropping Tyler Murphy like a rug doll. Football is King in Gainesville. It is the King financially. It is the King emotionally. When I think of Jeremy Foley I think about how Mr. Foley’s poor judgment and enormous ego brought a once proud program to its knees. One day Jeremy Foley will be gone and, guess what, the UF will still exist.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A league-high six team titles led the University of Florida athletics program to its 25th overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports trophy in 2014-15. Florida wins the overall title for the ninth consecutive year in the 2014-15 GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports rankings.
The determination of the SEC All-Sports standings came Saturday when the final league championships for 2014-15 were awarded for regular-season baseball and for outdoor track & field.
Florida was second in both the men's and women's final standings. Texas A&M won its first women's SEC All-Sports title since joining the league for the 2012-13 season. LSU took the men's SEC All-Sports title - its first since 1996-97.
Did You Know?
* Florida's 224 all-time league team titles<http://www.gatorzone.com/overview/> are the most in the SEC. In the last 10 seasons, UF leads the league with 56 titles.
Florida's 2014-15 SEC titles:
The Gators led the SEC in 2014-15 with six league team titles:
* Softball
* Men's swimming & diving
* Women's tennis
* Men's indoor track & field
* Men's outdoor track & field
* Volleyball
One other Florida sport claimed a league crown in 2015 as the Gator lacrosse team won the BIG EAST title in their first season in the conference.
SEC Athletes of the Year:
Six Gators picked up SEC Athletes of the Year honors so far in 2014-15:
Brooke Austin
Tennis Player of the Year
Kytra Hunter<http://www.gatorzone.com/guides/gymnastics/pages/season_info/player_bios/hunter_kytra.php>
Gymnast of the Year
Kelsey Stewart
Softball Player of the Year
Lauren Haeger
Softball Pitcher of the Year
Marquis Dendy
Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
Alex Holston
Volleyball Player of the Year
Florida Athletics Director Jeremy Foley says:
"The SEC is such a challenging league, with so many teams across all the sports ranking among the nation's best. This overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports Trophy is the result of so much hard work and effort by all of our student-athletes and coaches."
Jeremy Foley
University of Florida Athletics Director
How is the GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports titles figured?
Points are awarded based on the number of competing teams in a sport (e.g. - 14 teams compete in SEC baseball, giving the winner 14 points, second gets 13, etc. Four teams compete in equestrian, awarding four points to the winner). A program's points total is divided by the total number of teams competing in the sports the school fields and that quotient ranks the teams in the final GateHouse Media standings. The sports of cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field are combined. A program's outdoor track finish makes up half, while the remaining two quarters are based on the cross country and indoor finishes.
GateHouse Media Southeastern Conference All-Sports formula
Total points for school's finish in each SEC sport it competes in
/
Total number of teams competing
in sports a school fields
=
Quotient ranked for
program finish
(e.g. - SEC baseball champion receives 14 points; equestrian 4 points)
(e.g. - Florida men's total of 92 participating teams derived by adding
14 (base) + 14 (MBB) + 14 (FB) + 14 (GLF) + 10 (S&D) + 13 (TEN) + 13 (T&F) = 92
About the SEC All-Sports Trophy:
This is the first year GateHouse Media, which owns The Gainesville Sun as well as dozens of other publications around the country, awards the overall, men's and women's SEC All-Sports trophies.
The past three were awarded by the Halifax Media Group. The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group gave the awards from the 1994-95 through 2010-11 seasons. Prior to that, the league tabulated the SEC All-Sports totals.
What's Next?
UF is hopeful of finishing among the nation's top 10 most successful overall athletic programs for the 32nd consecutive year when final national all-sports rankings<http://www.nacda.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-current-scoring.html> are released June 25 or 26. Florida is the only school to finish among the nation's top 10 overall most successful athletic programs each year since 1983.
Let's Look at the Charts:
2014-15 SEC All-Sports Overall All-Sports Standings
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
Florida
157.5
208
0.7572
2
Texas A&M
152.5
204
0.7475
3
LSU
139
208
0.6683
4
Georgia
129
212
0.6085
5
Alabama
123
208
0.5913
6
Kentucky
107
208
0.5144
7
Arkansas
101.5
198
0.5126
8
Vanderbilt
81
164
0.4939
9
Mississippi
86.5
178
0.4860
10
South Carolina
94
204
0.4608
11
Auburn
94.5
212
0.4458
12
Tennessee
86
200
0.4300
13
Missouri
78.5
195
0.4026
14
Mississippi State
69
178
0.3876
Men
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
LSU
65.5
92
0.7120
2
Florida
65
92
0.7065
3
Mississippi
55.5
82
0.6768
4
Georgia
61
92
0.6630
5
Texas A&M
60
92
0.6522
6
Arkansas
49.5
82
0.6037
7
Alabama
51
92
0.5543
8
Vanderbilt
44.5
82
0.5427
9
Auburn
41
92
0.4457
10
Kentucky
40.5
92
0.4402
11
Mississippi State
35
82
0.4268
12
Missouri
32
79
0.4051
13
South Carolina
36.5
92
0.3967
14
Tennessee
33
92
0.3587
Women
Place
School
Points
Total # of
Part. teams
Quotient
1
Texas A&M
92.5
112
0.8259
2
Florida
92.5
116
0.7974
3
LSU
73.5
116
0.6336
4
Alabama
72
116
0.6207
5
Kentucky
66.5
116
0.5733
6
Georgia
68
120
0.5667
7
South Carolina
57.5
112
0.5134
8
Tennessee
53
108
0.4907
9
Arkansas
52
116
0.4483
10
Auburn
53.5
120
0.4458
11
Vanderbilt
36.5
82
0.4451
12
Missouri
46.5
116
0.4009
13
Mississippi State
34
96
0.3542
14
Mississippi
31
96
0.3229

Andrew Spiveyandrewspiveyandrew.spivey1987@yahoo.comAuthorAndrew always knew he wanted to be involved with sports in some capacity. He began by coaching high school football for six years before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. While coaching, he was a part of two state semifinal teams in the state of Alabama. Given his past coaching experience, he figured covering recruiting would be a perfect fit. He began his career as an intern for Rivals.com, covering University of Florida football recruiting. After interning with Rivals for six months, he joined the Gator Country family as a recruiting analyst. Andrew enjoys spending his free time on the golf course and watching his beloved Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewSpiveyGC.GatorCountry.com